How Do You Make a Big Decision?

Data Only Takes You so Far. Reviewing ‘Wild Problems’ by Russ Roberts

Let’s say you want to do one or more of the following: move house, get married, start a business, change careers, join a church, have kids, vote, volunteer. How do you make the right call? We usually start by contemplating the upside, which seems like a decent place to begin. We might then take stock of the downsides to counterbalance an over-rosy pictu…